by eleazar | August 24, 2012 | Psychologies Mag Chronicles
Psychologies Magazine, July 2001 — Every summer, tens of thousands of French people devote a few days to taking care of their "souls." The hostels of Catholic monasteries are packed to the rafters—sometimes you have to book more than a year in advance...
by eleazar | August 24, 2012 | Psychologies Mag Chronicles
Psychologies Magazine, June 2001 — In 1982, I celebrated my 20th birthday in India. Nineteen years later, I returned there for interviews with the Dalai Lama for a book. The reasons that once drove me to make this trip and the traces it left on me...
by eleazar | August 24, 2012 | Psychologies Mag Chronicles
Psychologies Magazine, May 2001 — The visit that John Paul II is to make on May 5, barefoot, to the Great Mosque of Damascus is a historic event. After having already visited the Great Synagogue of Rome at the beginning of his pontificate, this step by the Pope...
by eleazar | August 24, 2012 | Psychologies Mag Chronicles
Psychologies Magazine, April 2001 — With the rate of mass suicides, we have become accustomed to only talking about sects when these tragic excesses occur. For once, a real debate (1) is developing in civil society around a project of...
by eleazar | August 24, 2012 | Psychologies Mag Chronicles
Psychologies Magazine, January 2001 — The growing popularity of Zen and Tibetan Buddhism in the West has revived an old, centuries-worn moral concept: compassion. Already criticized by the Stoics and Spinoza as a weakness of...